Thursday, 23 September 2010

I've been busy oddly enough; college, rl, painting. Sucks but such is life.

Just started painting my entries for this sundays GD, I swore last year that I'd leave myself plenty of time to do a good job this year, but I have no idea where the last three months went, so...

My entries this year: LotR dwarf banner this one, though not that scheme. and an ancient goblin netter that I managed to get my hands on recently. Neither has had any work done to them (except a sculpted base for the dwarf) and both are currently at the basecoat stage.

So yes plenty of time again, but at least the dwarf will be done even if the goblin isn't and you shall have pics in the near future, whether or not that will be before sunday I can't say.

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

They won me the comp before Lemartes (in which I did have some competition).

Less talk, more pics:

Pretty pleased with the way they came out, especially since the majority of the painting was done about 5 years ago. The candles and the lanterns came out well for my first try (at least, I think so), they were what stopped me from calling the models done back when I first put paint on them.

Any recommendations for painting candles/lanterns in the future?

On a side note, I ended up picking the Dreadlord on cold one for the competition this month ( this saturday), the store has sold out of them and I haven't got one yet, so it'll be another rush job and I happen to know that there are at least two people already entering, so it will close this month.

Test model for the Spider riders is almost done, but having attempted to learn the new addition with the wee green monsters, I can confidently say I'll be damned lucky if I get above the bottom quarter at the GT in October, hopefully I'll get a nomination for best painted army, but I may just be clutching at straws due to the tiny amount of time I have to paint this horde.

Ah well, I never did say I wanted an easy life!

All C&C welcome, thanks for the comments so far and the following and I hope I haven't bored you too much.

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

He did win the comp, but a somewhat hollow victory as I was the only entrant.Painted in one night, so forgive the roughness, he'll be cleaned up once I bring him home.

As to the model for this months comp, several people have suggested I boycott it due to the ubnpopularity of the new manager and the restrictive rules of the comp, but I'm quite drawn to the bundle of free stuff, even if I don't know what it is yet.

So the model for this month, I had decided on the Empire Captain with Hammer and Pistol (This guy) but the full timer has asked me to find a mini that's available in store instead; slightly difficult due to most of the nice character minis being order only now!

Saturday, 31 July 2010

Right the reason for the rush, The last pics I posted were from a comp, between then and now there was another comp (which I won!) there's another comp today at 1pm (1 hour and 10 mins away), but (and it's a BIG but), I'm not sure whether to put eyes on the model or not (its the new angry Blood angles chaplain, keep forgetting his name), those of you who have him will know that there are no eyes sculpted on. Aha, Lemartes (I remembered!).

So, he has no eyes, do I either leave the holes blank or put a white dot in there?

Any responses within the next 20-30 mins would be most appreciated, unlikely, but what the hell.

Monday, 5 July 2010

I finally have pics of some of the stuff from the comp (that I'll stop harping on about soon, honest). I've only got time to put up some of the pics, but hopefully they'll tide you over for a little while.

Without further ado, Old Death Company Assault marines:

I understand and agree that the bases and weathering a little rough, but they were done to as trict time limit and whilst working on several other things as well; aside from that, I think they're a pretty reasonable army standard, anybody agree?

Balin:

Only thing that's changed since January is the base. I'll admit I'm starting to see why peole stress the importance of the base, it has set it off quite nicely, even if I do say so myself.

A question before I go, would you rather I update all of the stuff I do or should I stick to my best painted stuff?I should warn you that the later would mean very few pics from me, as I've been on a speed painting bent since I did so dismally in terms of painting an army for the GT.

Thursday, 1 July 2010

Well I had pics of the painted dread, the marine squad I'm working on for the astro rumble or stumble 8 or 9 and one of the bikes that I'm working on, and most helpfully Kodak easyshare has eaten them, so my apologies but no pic updates tonight, I'm too tired.

I did however, meet the new store manager of my local GW today and got one of the last skull pass boxes. Now I'm not sure whether or not I mentioned it on here or not but I'm currently trying to do a goblin army on the cheap, to get me back into warhammer, what with the new ed and all (as I'm sure is fresh news to the internet community). Adding them to my first box (from when it was first released about 4-5 years ago) it makes about 2k with a few upgrades and conversions. How to do the fanatics cheaply is beyond me though, so I think I probably will have to get myself a box of them, though I might be able to stretch the usefulness of the box a bit.

I'm half way through a couple of conversions for them at the moment (pics were also eaten), I've cleaned 38 spearmen (2 others had already been used) and I got through 15 archers tonight, so not doing too badly but it's looking a little unlikely that I'll have a 2k army for the 10th.

Especially with the new manager planning monthly painting comps, which I am pretty my honour bound to compete in.

Good to get all that out of the system, well done for suffering through it (all 0 of you that read this far).

Oh and hello to the new members that've popped up since I last said it, hello! Welcome to the ramblings and infrequent pictorial updates :D